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Peering into the Past: A Student History Exhibition

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Do you enjoy history?  Stories?  Field trips? The Time Travelers do!  We're a history club for students in Grades 4-12 sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History.  We participate in a wide variety of historical endeavors, and our students would like to share their work with you. Visit the Person County Museum of History on Saturday, August 27, from 2 - 4 PM for an exhibition of their work.  See projects that have been entered into district, state, and national competitions - and meet the students who have researched and curated them.  Learn more about the activities and endeavors of the Time Travelers, including: field trips recording historical podcasts blogging conducting research participating in local digs and artifact research preparing history projects for competitions The Time Travelers have participated in the following academic programs, and information will be available about all of them during the exhibition. The Tar Heel Junior Historian Association National Hi
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Meet the Time Travelers

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 The Time Travelers is a history club for students in Grades 4 - 12 based in Person County, North Carolina.  Currently, we have members from across the Piedmont region. Our goals are to learn history and to show others how fun that pursuit can be.  To that end, we take lots of field trips, participate in and host history-based events, and participate in history competitions like the Tar Heel Junior Historian competitions and National History Day.     We welcome other people who are history-minded to join us on our adventures.  Click here to visit our public Facebook group and stay in the know.  If you're interested in joining the club, please send our advisor a message through that page.
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Test Your Skills at NC Trivia Night

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Are you up on your North Carolina trivia?  Do you know about all the things that make this state great?  Test your skills at 1792 Beer Company on Wednesday, January 12, at 6:30 PM.  There will even be a food truck - Don Taco will be there so you can have your tacos and play, too.  Whether you're a pro at pub trivia or a total newbie, this is the place to be.  Here's out it works:   It's free to play. Play in teams of up to six. There are four rounds of play with four categories each (people, places, events, and sports) along with a bonus question, Final-Jeopardy style. No googling!   Turn your answer sheets in to the Time Travelers each round for your score to be counted. The team with the highest score at the end wins a pizza gift certificate and a really nice stepping stone.  Another team will win a NC tee from 1792 by random drawing.     There's nothing to lose and everything to gain at NC trivia night!  Grab your friends and come to play! *NC Trivia is sponsored by
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Exploring Past and Present at The Colonial Inn, Part Four: The Future

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This is the final installment in a series of posts exploring  The Colonial Inn 's  past and present.   Click here  for the introduction and full list of posts.  Enjoy!      For the last few weeks, The Time Travelers History Club has been sharing what we learned on a tour of the historic Colonial Inn in Hillsborough.  This 180+ year old Inn is currently being revived and transformed into a boutique hotel and event space that perfectly combines historic and modern beauty, comfort, and hospitality.  Are you curious to see what is inside the preserved white walls?  To learn more about what the Colonial Inn will have to offer? Keep reading for a sneak-peek look in this final installment of Exploring Past and Present at The Colonial Inn .
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Exploring Past and Present at The Colonial Inn, Part 3: Restoration

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This is Part Three of a series of posts exploring  The Colonial Inn 's  past and present.   Click here  for the introduction and full list of posts.  Enjoy!        If you've driven on King Street in Hillsborough sometime during the past year, you probably noticed a large, white building being transformed from battered to beautiful.  That is the Colonial Inn, a structure over 180 years old.  The building is making a comeback to serve it's original purpose as a hotel, but in a modern style.  Ever wondered what it looks like inside?  Keep scrolling to get a sneak peek look at the result of painstaking restoration!
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Exploring Past and Present at The Colonial Inn, Part 2: Saving the Inn (the First Time)

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This is Part Two of a series of posts exploring  The Colonial Inn 's  past and present.   Click here  for the introduction and full list of posts.  Enjoy!     The Colonial Inn has stood on King Street in Hillsborough for 180-260 years (see this previous post about the rich history of the Inn) and now is undergoing careful restoration to become a boutique hotel and community event center.  But did you know that the Inn would not be standing today if it hadn't been for the bravery of one woman during the nineteenth century? 
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Exploring Past and Present at The Colonial Inn, Part 1: History

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This is Part One of a series of posts exploring  The Colonial Inn 's  past and present.   Click here for the introduction and full list of posts.  Enjoy! The Colonial Inn in Hillsborough was so much more than a dilapidated building.
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